Awarded contract

Purchase of Cetacean Click Detectors

Details

Supplier(s)
Chelonia Limited
Value
£99,200
Topic
Noise-measuring equipment
Published
27 January 2025

Tender description

The Scottish Ministers invites tenders for the purchase of autonomous marine acoustic cetacean click detectors. Lot 1: The Scottish Ministers invites tenders for the purchase of autonomous marine acoustic cetacean click detectors. The Scottish Ministers requires autonomous marine acoustic cetacean click detectors for the purposes of long-term static monitoring of marine mammals. This requirement is for cetacean click detectors suitable for acoustic monitoring for deployment in inshore and offshore waters. Cetacean click detectors must be capable of being moored for extended periods underwater, recording data autonomously with a programmable option for on/off duty cycle. The devices will be used as part of an array of moored detectors, monitoring cetaceans in Scotland’s offshore waters

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date20 January 2025
  2. Completed: Award published27 January 2025
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About the buyer

The Scottish Government is a devolved central government department that buys through its Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate. Regulated procurements across the Scottish public sector are advertised on Public Contracts Scotland, the national portal set up in 2008. Bids are usually submitted through PCS-Tender, the national eTendering system it funds. The directorate also runs frameworks covering construction, corporate services, ICT, professional services, utilities and HR. Many of these frameworks are open to the wider Scottish public sector as well as central government. The Supplier Development Programme offers free tender training to SMEs and third sector organisations.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Scottish Government's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and research and development.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 38434300 · Noise-measuring equipment
  • 45214630 · Scientific installations

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